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I also agree that a big issue here is crappy software. The discussion revolving AI+cyber always revolves around the assumption that all software is crappy, and to a certain degree …

to be fair, the model used for Chat Jimmy is not very smart, but the world where it is smart is very interesting. It’s going to be really crazy when the bottle neck for agents is t…

not that it really helps to know now, but .gle is a TLD operated by Google. the only domains on a .gle domain will be Google (in theory). Plus, a single letter domain (on any TLD),…

tech companies are responsible for the products they ship, aren’t they? a company shouldn’t release something that could only be used for Bad Things

What is an AI image generator inside Google Earth useful for if not generating believable but fake images that look like they’re from Google Earth?

is this the same thing as/related to https://superb.systems/ ? https://go.superlogical.com --> https://superb.systems/ edit: aand someone fixed it :) I guess that must've been thei…

I found https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move It sounds like both are the same project, one is the “explorer” which is on a different domain so that censoring it doesn’t impac…

I’m ambivalent towards AI generated poster or other business design. It might leave a bad taste in my mouth but it’s whatever. While I’m against it, I can understand why for many b…

This is pretty cool. iOS could do with more 'do one thing and do it well' apps without paywalls or subscriptions...

Does HN still use simple files for storing its data?

I think that really depends on how you use the cards. I know medicine students who clearly are passionate about their subject, but just need to get the reminders on individual term…

function getPercentileText(survived) { if (survived === 18) return 'Top 1% of players today '; if (survived === 17) return 'Top 2% of players today '; if (survived === 16) return '…

This is really cool. I think a lot of people will initially dismiss your demo as ‘slop’ unless the landing page drops some of the Claude-isms (text and design) because it’s clear t…

we’re on hacker news! this is the right place for the adventurous people to ‘try out all these new things’ so that the new stuff can emerge victorious :P

genuine question: is latency that big of a deal wrt tools for agents? I see this a lot with these AI-native tooling replacement projects, but surely the inference will be orders of…

on the topic of Swiss Internet: everyone I know in Zurich’s home internet gets a mostly-static IPv4. It’s not a promised feature or anything, but my IP didn’t rotate for years . Th…

to be fair, if you went to a movie store, bought a movie (and unbeknownst to you there was some note on the counter that said the store reserved the right to take your movie from y…

that’s fair! It definitely looks good and modern!! I just wonder if it compromises the initial impressions of the project in some way.

maybe slightly unrelated but the new htmx homepage ( https://four.htmx.org/ ) feels a little ironic, seemingly written with tailwindcss and a full JS ecosystem Astro build system. …

surely the weights for the model & the equipment to run them make it logistically challenging enough to deter that… also I’m sure models have leaked in their APIs before but those …

It seems like being a security researcher in 2024 vs 2026 is a wildly different experience across the board (presumably not just with J&J). I wonder what changed…

When I took the digital SAT a couple years ago, we had access to the Desmos Graphing Calculator during the whole math section. The entire point of the exam was to test whether you …

this might be the only place where a redirection to bing provides a much better UX than what was there previously!

I think most people don’t need to worry about their host abusing its power to impersonate them, but the cool thing is, the people who do need to/want to worry (journalists, politic…

the person who made this prototyped an e-ink framework 13 and it looks awesome... https://x.com/zephray_wenting/status/1535041457035280392